RWA has come to the second stage of this edition, during which all winners of the MERIT category will compete for the EXCELLENCE awards of the Italian Web Oscars.

This year the rules states that the first, second and third place will be awarded, for 15 categories: Best Web Creation, Series, Film / Video, Directing, Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing , Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Cast, Trailer, Scene and Poster.

In this edition, the Excellence Awards will be assigned also to the category of YouTubers.

Awards categories concern YouTubers and Gamers, divided into: Best YouTuber, Best International YouTuber, Best Gamer Senior and Best Gamer Junior. They will also be awarded the best themed YouTube channels: Entertainment, Sports, Information, Cooking, Make Up, Science, Mystery, Entertainment, and Music.

During the awards ceremony will be announced the winners of the "Special Mentions" and "GOLDEN STARS", the golden stars for the career.

The long waited Merit Awards Ceremony of the Fourth edition of the Rome Web Awards has just ended and it lasted three evenings.

The Board of Rome Web Awards has published with the usual video in Computer Graphics the winners chosen other 1000 nominations. A qualified jury decided all winners except 7 decided by the event's Media Partners.

The numbers of this year's competition are even more awesome: the participants come from 16 different Countries, divided into 5 Continents. The jury had to make very difficult choices, due to the extreme quality of the works in competition, which rises year after year. The Rome Web Awards 2017 is considered the award ceremony more complex and rich in the World.

The Rome Web Awards 2017 is not yet finished. Despite the important and much followed awards ceremony, this still represents an intermediate stage of the competition, which will conclude at June with the award of Excellence Awards Ceremony. All winners in the Merit awards, in fact, will compete to win the Excellence awards. A race, which will make direct comparison with the best, works in each category. There will also be assigned on this occasion the coveted HONOREM GOLDEN STAR for Lifetime Achievement.

The submissions for Rome Web Awards 2017 are open starting from the July of this year. The Award ceremony will be held on web in April and May 2017.

The Italian Web Oscars, at the fourth edition, this year counts more than 1200 nominations, 250 Merit Awards, 45 Excellence Awards and the prestigious Media Partners Awards and Golden Stars. Rome Web Awards confirms to be the richest and complex world ceremony in the independent audiovisual sector.

It is possible to subscribe any audiovisual work present on the web: Web Series, Shorts, Film, Fan Film, Web Shows, Video clips, Animations, Documentary and more.

The submissions will be open until 31 December of this year. Officially selected works will participate to the competition and will be included on Web Series Tv platform, for free and in automatic way. Moreover, the works can be awarded also from the media partners of RWA.

Base categories for this year’s competition are:

Animation

Comedy

Cult/Original Trash

Documentary/Mockumentary

Drama

Dramedy

Fan Film

Horror

LGBT

Musical/Videoclip

No Fiction/Reality

Romance

SciFi/Fantasy Comedy

SciFi/Fantasy No Comedy

Sketch

Social

Thriller

War/Action

News 2017: Youtubers, Gamers and YouTube Channels Awards!

There is a great news in this edition: the Board will award also the most interesting and innovative Youtuber, Gamers, and YouTube channels, divided into several categories:

Personal

Youtuber Senior (more than 100.000 follower)

Youtuber Junior (less than 100.000 follower)

Gamers Senior (more than 100.000 follower)

Gamers Junior (less than 100.000 follower)

Channels

Animation

Movies, TV and Entertainment

Food and wellness

Games

News

Mistery

Fashion and beauty

Music

Science, Technology and learning

Sport

Humor

The RWA Board desire to invite all webcreatives to participate to the most important Italian event dedicated to independent video producers.

To keep informed on all phases of competition and to know all works in detail, become a fan of Facebook page, and visit the site www.romewebawards.it